Anomnomnomaly

He's what the world needs more of, a person who's not a racist, fascist loving piece of shit like most politicians are... like the UK currently has too much of, we need more left leaning people in power instead of the wankers we have who are in the pockets of corporations and serve their interests. We needs les of the bigoted pieces of shit grifters like reform, tory and labour and their flag shagging racist supporters.

Too many people just don't give a fuck about who they elect and follow along like good little sheep to whoever makes the most noise about the current divisive trend (trans and immigrants at the moment).

Decorating a bedroom and found water damage to the window sill... could be a leak around the frame or some old damage from a window being left open in the past allowing driving rain in. Until I get it off (today's job) and inspect underneath, I can't tell. Could be a void in the cavity allowing some condensation below the sill... Can remedy that easily enough with some gap filler expanding foam.

Ordered a nice oak board to replace it (old one was cheap MDF), and will reseal around the frame... and hope that fixes the issue. Can't finish the painting until the new board is in early next week (got a joiner friend coming to do it and the new skirting/architrave)

Then went away for 4 days from Thurs to Sun. House and dog sitting for my sister as her doggo is 13yrs old and struggling with arthritis and pancreatitis. Can't really be lifted in and out of the car, so easier for us to go there than stress him out bringing him to us. Still got to walk him down to the beach a few times and then let him sleep/rest most of the day... and as she lives in an old blacksmiths forge converted to a cottage with modern extension at the back... they rely on a wood burner for a lot of the heat this time of year, so we relaxed in front of a nice warm fire every evening with a beer and a movie.

Weather was utter shite... perfect for snuggling up on the sofa in front of the fire, but still managed to go out a couple of times... mainly to get some fresh air even thought there was heavy rain and strong winds... and stop for lunch somewhere, even if it was just for coffee and cake overlooking the sea.

A lovely relaxing end to what was turning into an annoying and expensive week... decorating rooms in this house always throws up some extra annoyances where builders or previous owners cut corners or bodged things So 30% of each DIY job is fixing the screw ups.

Hope your week was better.

Racists suspend 4 bigots after arguments break out over who's the biggest bigoted bully of them all.

I saw them live in 2003 supporting Linkin Park, when I heard about the arrest and subsequent conviction and the true horror of his crimes... I destroyed the CD's, I deleted the music from my computer.

I have never allowed their music to assault my ears again and never will.

I cannot and will not mourn such a piece of shit, and nor will I condemn the person who killed him... I'm not advocating that all paedophiles are killed, but I'm not going to be sad about a proven guilty and convicted being unalived.

I still sneak my own food and drink into the cinema when I go... it costs 1/4 of the price that way and the two of us can actually go and see a movie for less than £50 that way. When I was a teenager, you could actually buy 2 tickets & popcorn for less than £10 (90's)... and we'd sneak a bottle of vodka in.

OMG... I used to run a childrens after school project and we were full time during the school hols... So many times we'd organise outings to the lasertag place near us... Had no idea they still existed, it's probably been almost 20yrs or so... lasertag, roller skating, those activity centres with slides, ropes, tunnels and ball pits... afternoon trips to the cinema to watch a Pixar movie in the summer hols and at least 3 times during the summer break... a big day out to a theme park, museums and other interesting places like cabury world where you can get the kids sick on chocolate samples after scoffing as many as they can and then putting them on a coach for the 2hr drive back.... Didn't do that trip again. :)

A bit meh... weather has been absolute dogshit all week... The wind and rain have started causing my early onset arthritis to play up and I've been struggling as a result to crack on with some DIY jobs I needed to finish. Then errands, running my elderly mum about for appointments because she decided to schedule appts in the same fucking place on 2 different fucking days... AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Then wanted me to take her to meet my sister on Friday 30 miles away.

However... here's the upsides.

My step-niece had her 2nd child and 2nd boy. Finally finished the prep on the bedroom on Thurs evening, plasterer starts Monday... so painting should commence end of next week. I went out for brunch on Tues & Weds whilst waiting for her to finish her appointments... woohoo, 2 cooked brekkies in a row. I was able to sort out lifts for her for Thurs, so I didn't have to interrupt my work yet again because she expects me to drop everything at her command (I don't). Dropped her off to go to the cinema with my sister to see some Downton Abbey movie, and I went and got a nice coffee and some cake.

Came back home and played Cyberpunk 2077 for a few hrs this afternoon until my partner got home.

We're now about to have an early night ;) and watch a little netflix... probably chill.

Yeah, they think they can avoid the fine by blocking the UK... but that won;t have any effect on their past failings to follow the UK laws.

All I can say is... good, imgur can fuck off and hopefully die.

A few weeks back they went on a mass banning spree too after a mass protest from users. I 'could' still access it as I use a VPN and have for the last 12-13yrs... the OSA affected me for 2 seconds, as I switched from a server in one country to another.... But imgur went to shit a long time ago, bowing to chinese investors and censoring shit, then being bought by a toxic company known for degrading services and running them into the ground whilst pocketing as much cash as they get their hands on.

So imgur has been dying for many years, and this is just finishing it off.

Don't fret, there are alternatives and they're not corpo controlled by wankers.

They need to be connected to their servers to be set up... worthless junk. At least you've learned a valuable... albeit it, expensive lesson. There is no reason at all to allow these devices to be at the whim of some company. It's a hill I would gladly die upon, and the only things in my home that connect to the internet are my solar/battery system and my thermostat... both can be integrated into home assistant and only the solar/battery system sends any data about generation and battery health, I've even isolated onto guest wifi network to keep it free from the house.

If it's not compatible with home assistant it's worthless junk. If it requires their app to function, it's worthless junk... you are buying a product that can be rendered a brick at any point, and there are literally hundreds of examples of companies doing exactly this.

Stop buying them, unless you own them and control them.